Netanyahu’s Réprise Of The ‘Iraq WMD Deceit’: Re-Launched To Promote War On Iran – OpEd
Key Takeaways
The piece argues that the US entered and continued the Iran conflict with critical gaps in air-defence interceptor stocks (requiring years rather than months to replenish due to China-controlled rare-earth materials) and that optimistic official claims about oil flows through alternative routes and manageable energy shortages lack credible evidence.
Iran is portrayed as resilient, retaining substantial offshore oil stocks, showing no signs of economic collapse under blockade, and prepared to escalate rather than capitulate if pressured further, while the prolonged standoff imposes rising military and economic costs on the US and Gulf producers.
Drawing on Israeli analysts and former officials, the article questions whether the war was truly a necessary preventive strike against an imminent nuclear threat or an opportunistic campaign driven by exaggerated claims, noting contradictions between Netanyahu’s public assertions and more cautious Israeli and US intelligence assessments that found no solid evidence of active weaponization.
President Trump took Secretary of War Hegseth’s military cheerleading (‘U.S. military potency is awesome’) at face value, only belatedly to discover that the U.S. is out of interceptors in a war that hinges on air defences. ‘The restock mathematics is just as cold. Four years to refill the stocks (not four months), because components include rare earth materials that are controlled by China’.
